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For Immediate Release November 8, 2005
Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker to present Humorous History at Museum
3 p.m., Sun., Dec. 4, 2005
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06878
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine, will present ”A New Yorker Cartoon History of the Twentieth Century” on Sunday, December 4, at 3 p.m. at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1 Museum Drive, in Greenwich, Connecticut. This special program is held in conjunction with the Museum’s current exhibition Art and Artists: New Yorker Cartoons from the Melvin R. Seiden Collection which is on view through December 31, 2005. For reservations, call the Bruce Museum at (203) 869-0376. The lecture is free to Museum members and $5 at the door for non-members.
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Robert Mankoff has been cartoon editor of The New Yorker since September 1997. In 1992, he founded The Cartoon Bank (www.cartoonbank.com), a cartoon licensing, syndication, and archive business, and under his direction, it grew into the largest computerized archive of magazine-style cartoons in the world. The New Yorker Magazine Inc. purchased The Cartoon Bank in January 1997, and Mr. Mankoff serves as its president. Mr. Mankoff is the author of The Naked Cartoonist, a nonfiction book about how to be more creative, as well as the editor of numerous cartoon collections, including The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Business Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Kids Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons, and The New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons. Mr. Mankoff is also an accomplished and much-published cartoonist himself. His own work has been collected in four books: Urban Bumpkins, Call Your Office, It’s Lonely at the Top, and Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It. Since the summer of 2004, Mr. Mankoff also has been teaching and doing research at the University of Michigan as part of a new “Humor at Michigan” program, a collaboration between the psychology and humanities departments designed to explore the psychology of humor. Born and raised in New York City, Robert Mankoff graduated from Syracuse University. He lives in Westchester County, New York. The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science is located at 1 Museum Drive in Greenwich, Connecticut, near Interstate-95, Exit 3, and a short walk from the Greenwich, CT, rail station. Museum admission is $7 adults, $6 seniors and students, and free for children under five and members. Free admission to all on Tuesdays. Free, on-site parking is available. The Bruce Museum is accessible to individuals with disabilities. For information, call the Bruce Museum at (203) 869-0376 or visit the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science website at www.brucemuseum.org
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